School of Arts PGR-ECR Conference:
‘Reimagining World Views Across Space and Time’
Programme for Saturday, 18 November 2023
Location: University of Leicester, Sir Bob Burgess Building
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9.00-9.30 Registration and Refreshments
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9.30-9.40 General Introduction
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9.45-10.30 Keynote: Kit de Waal
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10.35-11.35 (Theme A) Past, Present and Future Re-Presentations
-Patrícia Maia Noronha, ‘On Mourning the Living (Two novellas – One novel)’.
-Heena Heena, ‘Time Prediction and Astrology in Pre-Modern North India (1700-1900)’. (hybrid)
-Tomos Williams, ‘Retrogaming, Retrowriting: Video Games, Nostalgia and the Pastoral Idyll in Stephen Sexton’s If All the World and Love Were Young’.
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11.40-12.40 (Theme B) Geo-Political Changes and the Question of Homeland
-Beth Gaylard, ‘Homesick at Home: Approaches to Solastalgia in the Context of English Pastoral Literature’.
-Frankie Goodridge, ‘Irony, Fate, and the Future in the Work of Juan Carlos Galeano’.
-Amjad Alliheibi, ‘Translation of Alternative Self-help Books from English into Arabic: Features of Provocative Register as a Case Study’.
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12.45-1.30 Lunch Break
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1.35-2.35 (Theme C) Language and Gender
-Sanem Altı, ‘The Hymen in the Novels of Elif Shafak’.
-Gaia Fay Lambert, ‘Reflections in the Water: Exploring the Legacy of Tragedy in the Recontextualised Tragic Heroine’.
-Andrea Lambert, ‘Byron’s Haidée as Tirso’s Tisbea: The Re-presentation of Woman as Victim in the Reimagined World of Don Juan’.
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2.40-3.40 (Theme D) Hybrid Identity and Border Crossing
-Chang Xu, ‘Constructing Modern China through Chinese American Travelogue Fictions’.
-Carinya Sharples, ‘Writing Self: How Mixed-Race Writers Find Belonging on the Page’.
-David George Lyons, ‘Painting with Words: Ekphrastic Reluctance in Anna Jameson’s Diary of an Ennuyée (1826)’
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3.45-3.55 Break
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4.00-5.00 (Theme E) Intertexuality/Intermediality
-Lola Abs Osta, ‘Re-presentation of Poetry in Programme Music and Semiotic Meanings: An Intermedial Analytical Method’.
-Zhongxing Zeng, ‘Translating Poetry into Song: A New Take on William Blake’s “The Blossom”’. (hybrid)
-Kriti, ‘Reading Love in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray’.
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5.05-6.05 (Theme F) Analysing Voices of Adversity
-Esther Ruth Kentish, ‘The Story of COVID-19: A Critical Investigation into Novels, Memoirs, Fiction, and Illness Narratives’.
-Tanya Hawkes, ‘Coal Gas and Its Communities: The People's Story’.
-Jo Shemmans, ‘Wordsworth and the Language of Vagrancy: Binary Opposition and Gender in Lyrical Ballads’.
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6.05 Closing Remarks
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Notes:
* Refreshments will be provided at registration. Affordable lunch options can be found at Freeman's Kitchen, within the Sir Bob Burgess Building.
* Bring a book! We are planning a book swap table, where you can leave a favourite book and pick up a new favourite. (Films or other media also welcome).